[PRCo] Re: LRVs out of service this morning; Remaining PCCs return to therails

[Greg King]

Hi Derrick,

Yes you really have to be up early on the first of the month don't you!!!!!!
(don't you hate it when we get the day before you way over here in the
antipodes?). Perhaps if you set your alarm to the new Metric time to
coincide with the new space station, that way you'll be sure to be up with
the birds, hah, hah.

Greg
----- Original Message -----
From: Derrick J Brashear <shadow at dementia.org>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 6:09 PM
Subject: [PRCo] LRVs out of service this morning; Remaining PCCs return to
therails


>
> It's my understanding that due to serious flaws uncovered in one of the
> major subsystems of the LRVs that the Port Authority will be operating a
> reduced schedule today, and that said schedule will be operated entirely
> with the few remaining PCCs which have not yet been removed from the
> property. Details are still sketchy and it remains to be seen what will
> happen Monday morning, as the PCCs on hand don't even come close to
> providing the necessary capacity for weekday schedules; I assume they'll
be
> making emergency repairs to the LRVs to get them back in service as soon
as
> possible. So, if you can, you need to get to Pittsburgh NOW NOW NOW and
get
> your pictures of the PCCs since this may finally be the last time they run
> in revenue service in the city. I'll try to get some pictures and share
> them for those of you who can't get here in time. I guess I should get to
> sleep now, since it's like 4am, and I was hoping to be up and taking
> pictures for the first run of the morning, whenever that is.
>
> -D
>
>
>